Artist description So, do you believe in rock'n'roll radio? In The Stooges Raw Power, The Stones Exile On Main Street? In The MC5, Aerosmith , The Electric Prunes, The Who, Funkadelic, The Count Five, Kiss? The Go do. They can't help it: they're from Detroit. "The Go are into the idea of non-conformist rock'n'roll that's always come from here" drawls singer Bobby Harlow. "It's in the soil. The Mid-West is like this fantasy land to people, but Detroit is a very violent place and that's reflected in The Go's music. The whole point of this band is to take that idea and go to the furthest extreme possible..." We are here to bear witness to the latest mean, gleaming, rock'n'roll machine to come off the Motor City Production line. Check the upholstery. Take it for a spin. You won't regret it. Because The Go have come not just to lay claim to being the greatest, grimiest methamphetamine rock band on the block, but also to free your mind. Gang attitude comes as standard but they bring ideology with their mirror shades. In The Go's ideal world Jack Kerouac's muse Neil Cassady would be driving the tour bus, William Burroughs writing the biog and Charles Bukowski installed as their tour manager. Let's not think who'd look after the rider. As Clellon Holmes wrote in his epic proto-beat novel Go: 'To be like them, or like us. Is there another position?' Bobby: "The thing about all those people is that they were rebels but they were super-passionate about life. That's why they're all heroes of ours. They weren't scared to mess up sometimes and that's the way I like it. To me, rock'n'roll bands are there to show an alternate life. Of course, at two o'clock in the morning, that might mean behaving like an absolute ass, but who cares? You don't have to be serious all the time. You don't want Nietsche preaching at you from the stage, you wanna have a party..." Rewind. The Go formed around a photogenic nucleus of Bobby, guitarist John Krautner and drummer Mark Fellis at eighteen. Full-time dreamers, every night they'd congregate at local hangout The Magic Stick and swap notes on The Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick and obscurist acid-culture revolutionaries The Deviants and The Fugs. Having formed the band with the strict intention of "bringing the sex back into rock'n'roll" they rapidly signed to Sup Pop and made plans to record what would become their debut album Whatcha Doin". What they really needed though, was a lead guitarist. Cue a certain Jack White. "Jack was in the band when we recorded our first album" explains Bobby." At the time we were looking for a raw, Stooges kind of sound and Jack fitted that perfectly. He was in a country band back then, but we knew him from The Magic Stick and knew he could help us get the sound we needed. It was a blast. But of course Jack had to cut loose and do his own thing with The White Stripes, and we had to do ours..." With word spreading fast about this ten-legged rock'n'roll juggernaut The Go knew it was time to do what they'd always wanted: the LSD album. A filthy laugh drifts down the line. Bobby: "Oh yeah. We had to do it, man. We had a guy called Dion in the band. After Jack we started writing these very extreme numbers. There was one called All Dimensions Are Loose which is eleven minutes of heavy, dirty, psychotic boogie rock'n'roll. The album was called Free Electricity. The idea, I guess, was to freak people out..." It worked. Sup Pop, as Bobby puts it, "totally hated it". The good news was that they suddenly found themselves free to indulge themselves artistically. The bad news was, they got dropped. Instead of wasting time plotting how to get even, The Go got mad. Quickly snapped up by Martin "Rhythm King" Heath's new label Lizard King they've channelled their love of stripped-down rock'n'roll, and created their most fuzzed-out psychedelic assault yet in the Capricorn E.P. Stick it on. Turn down the lights. Let the neighbours in on the secret. Bobby describes it best: "it's like a cross between the Jackson Five and the MC5, but still with the atmosphere of The Stones Let It Bleed. It's best heard played extremely loudly, maybe smoking a little pot..." The Go arrive in the U.K for the first time in November. Bobby: "For me there's nothing better than a sexy, genuinely authentic, nasty rock'n'roll band and that's The Go. Playing live for us is the most important thing of all. You can change someone's life at a gig and I fully intend to..." Don't touch that dial. Paul Moody, Oct 2002

Group Members Bobby Harlow (vocals), John Krautner (bass), Kenny Tudrick (guitar), Marc Fellis (drums)

Albums EP - Capricorn

Additional Info www.lizardkingrecords.com

Location Detroit, Michigan - USA

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